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GATTACA--are We There Yet?

Overview
Journal Nat Rev Endocrinol
Specialty Endocrinology
Date 2009 Apr 9
PMID 19352313
Citations 1
Authors
Jeremy B M Jowett
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Abstract

In the past few years, new genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes mellitus have been identified in large-scale studies of genetic associations. But can their inclusion in clinically based risk models improve disease prediction?

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